“The cruel irony, the almost unbelievable irony, is that the person who waits and waits and waits, after it happens, says, ‘I’ve done what I’ve got to do, and I’m out of here,'” her son Rich told the Chicago Tribune. “It ain’t funny, but it’s funny.”

Ball became somewhat of a local celebrity during the World Series because of her incredible story – a status she considered to be “a lot of nonsense.”

She listened to the Cubs on the radio, but her son told the Tribune that the only Cubs game she ever attended was on her 90th birthday.